Common Cause Rhode Island will be sponsoring a "Speech in Debate" Panel Discussion September 16th, 7 PM, at Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106 at 95 Cushing Street on the Brown University Campus. This will be a panel discussion about the decision of the Rhode Island Supreme Court in the case of Irons vs. The RI Ethics Commission. In its 3 to 1 decision, the court ruled that the speech in debate clause in the state constitution shields state legislators from Ethics Commission prosecution in cases where the legislator’s core legislative activities (like their votes) are used to prove that the legislator violated one of the state’s ethics laws. This will be an important and informative discussion on the issue of ethics enforcement in the state legislature.
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